Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1908 — Page 5

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. To-day’s markets: Wheat, 93c; Oats, 45c; Corn, 55c; Rye, 65c. O. G. Maxwell of Remington was a business visitor in the city Thursday. . . Bargains in all kinds of winter clothing and cloaks at the G. E. Murray Co. Mrs. E. E. Fritz of Delphi is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Alter. Come out to the Farmers Institute next week. See program elsewhere in this .paper. Xis we go to press the snow is melting quite fast and will probably all be gone by to-night. y'M’erry Marlatt was called to Ohio Tuesday by the sickness of his daughter Katie, who is visiting relatives in that state. t Now is the time for the wise merchant to plant his holiday advertising. Remember, everybody reads The Democrat, and if your ad is there it will sure be seen. Kentland Enterprise: The district meeting of the Knights of Pythias, annotneed to be held in Kentland week after next, has been postponed to the third week in January. Mrs. Amy Rouse of Columbus, Ohio, and Mrs. M. H. Hemphill and daughter, Mrs. Frank Alter, left Thursday for an extended visit in Colorado. Uncle John Makeever passed his 89th milestone Tuesday. While not quite so hale and hearty as of yore, owing to his recent experience in a runaway, he still bids fair to live many years yet. r \Mrs. E. C. English, MM. GeO. Meyers and Mrs. John Duvall gave a six o'clock turkey dinner Thursday evening at the home of the former to the high school football players and their trainers and umpire—24 in all. We are sorry to learn that Attroney A. Dr Babcock of Goodland, well known here and to many of The Democrat's readers, is ip very poor health and has been taken to Indianapolis for treatment at a sanatorium for nervous trouble. Th’ feller that don’t advertise may know his business, but nobuddy else does. Tilford Moots found a dollar an* twenty cents conscience money under th* kitchen door,this mornin*. He suspects the butcher.—Abe Martin, Indianapolis News. John Lesh, who went to near /Mbnomonie, Wisconsin, a couple of 'years ago, has returned to Jasper county and has rented R. H. Grow’s farm near Rensselaer, now occupied by Thomas Brusnahan, who will move upon his own farm. MThe hens have apparently nearly iRt gone on a strike, and eggs are now a luxury, the price in Rensselaer. being 30 cents per dozen, the highest figure reached for several years. In New York City strictly fresh eggs have reached 48 to 50 cents per dozen during the past two . weeks. ■ A large number of people from Rensselaer and vicinity have taken in the big fat stock show at Chicago this week. The show lasts until December 10. Indiana ranks well up to the head of the list in number of animals on exhibition, and enjoys the distinction of having the prize steer of the show.

Mmlss Tillie Gangloff is visiting iqLafayette. You can save money by buying your groceries at Murray’s. You take no chance When you buy flour of the G. E. Murray Co. Every sack warranted. ■■■ "z P. L. Fuller was up from Oxford Tuesday looking after the box ball alley which his son has charge of here. All persons knowing themselves to be indebted to the late Jay W. Williams will please call at the furniture store for settlement 'of account. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Dunn and two, children of Larimore, No. Dak., who have been visiting relatives and old friends there for the past month, returned home Wednesday. Mrs. Pearson' and Mrs. Pepperdine of Chatsworth, 111., who have been visiting Mrs. Sarah A. Ketchum and Mr. and Mrs. George Ketchum for a few days, returned home Tuesday. Remember the Corn and Bread Contest in connection with the Farmers Institute Dec. 7 and 8. Pupils who enter exhibits may be excused from school on Tuesday if they desire to attend the institute. Mrs. Lizzie Jones and three children of Bellevernon, Pa., are here for a week’s visit with her uncle, George Mustard, and Mr. and Mrs. Slyvester Gray. They will go from here to Wabash, for a short visit, then to Kansas and from there to New Mexico where they will spend the winter with Mrs. Jones* sister. to the government thermometer at the St. Joseph’s college, the mercury got down to 3 below zero Tuesday night. Wednesday was cold and clear, and Thursday was very warm. There is no snow was' very warm. Thursday night and yesterday morning three or four inches of snow fell, the most thus far for this winter. *~L<loe Nagle went’ to Lafayette Sunday afternoon to see his wife, who is still in St. Elizabeth’s hospital recovering from her recent operation. He returned Tuesday evening and reports Mrs. Nagle as getting along nicely and was able to'sit up Monday. She will soon leave the hospital but will remain wftn relatives there for a time before returning home. H. J. Bartoo, formerly of Rensselaer and late editor of the Morocco Courier, writes The Democrat from Seattle, Wash., enclosing a check for |1.50 for a year’s twice-a-week news from bld Jasper. He states that he is pleasantly located at 1331 Arcade Way, Seattle, in the job printing business and thinks he has a good thing. Bert understands the printing business in all its branches, and should make a great success In his new location, and The Democrat believes that he will. An exchange says that the editor who can please everyone is not suited for this earth, but is entitled to wings. Human nature is so consituted that some of our readers would like to have us feed them on scandal; some would like to have us tell the (invarnished truth about them, while others would kill us If we did. It is a comforting thought to the editor to know that the Lord himself did not please everybody while on earth. We labor hard to entertain and please our subscribers, but that we occasionally fail is to be expected. And yet you will always find us willing to be forgiven. Sale Bills at The Democrat office.

Try the 51.35 flour at Murray'* Guaranteed the beet in every way. V Mrs. Grace Lefler of Lafayette fame up Thursday evening for * few days visit with her parent*, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Jacks. Len will come up tomorrow morning and they will eat turkey with his father, James Lefler and wife of Hanging Grove. At the recent Eastern Star iniatlon and banquet here, Mrs. L. M. Imes left her pocketbook containing 830 in monpy and her watch in the Masonic lodge rooms, and did not miss It until she got home. She then thought it would be safe until next day, when she expected to go get it. She forgot it next day and it was the second day after the meeting that she went to look for it. Then it could not be found, and has not been found to this time. She cared more for the watch than for the loss of the money, but from present Indications will not get it pr the money back. She had left it in a chair, it seems, when she left the hall. Rev. J. L. Brady preached his farewell sermon at the Christian church Sunday evening, terminating a pastorate of seven years, lacking a month. Rev. Brady was extremely popular in Kentland, not only among his own church followers but the people in general. He was looked up to as a sincere, honest Christian gentleman, and his open cordlalty won him a host of friends. His work in the Christian church was effectual. Under his pastorate the membership was largely increased and the handsome new church building was erected. No successor has been chosen but the 1 pulpit, we are informed, will be supplied by special calls until such time as the congregation is ready to engage a permanent pastor.—Kentland Enterprise. The newest,' nobbiest, up-to-date men and boys’ suits and overcoats at money saving prices. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE.

CHICAGO JOUNRNAL NOW DEMOCRATIC.

The Chicago Daily Journal, until now an independent paper, ha* come out as a democratic daily and will henceforth advocate democratic principles. The Journal is one of the oldest of Chicago’s newspapers, having been established in 1844, and has a very large circulation. The need of a tree democratic paper in Chicago has long been felt, and now that the Journal has fully espoused the democratic cause, and did excellent work in the campaign just closed, it is up to the democrats of the middle west, who want a Chicago paper, to subscribe for the Journal. The Democrat has made arrangements to club with the Journal, and can furnish it and The Democrat for |3.00 per year, or only 11.50 Additional over the price of The Democrat alone. This offer applies to both new subscribers and renewals.

Fresh clean eggs 28 cents cash or 30 cents a dozen in trade. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. BOX SOCIAL. There will be a box social at the Burnstown school house in Barkley tp., on Saturday evening, Dec. 5, for the benefit of the school. All are welcome. MARY JACKS, Teacher Shoes and rubbers. Double the stock of any other. Over 100 cases new rubbers at special low prices. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. The best electric light globes made, the Gem, all sizes, 2 to 40 candle power. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. Two samples base burner stoves at less than manufacturers prices to close. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. One lot men’s 50 and 75 cent turtle neck sweaters, sale price 38 cents. One lot men’s fancy stirpe wool turtle neck sweaters, |I.OO and 1.50, choice now at 75 cents. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. Turkey for Three Hundred. Linton. Ind.. Dec. 4—The local Salvation Army has prepared to supply turkey to 300 |x»or persons on Christmas. . .Scarlet Fever Closes Schools. Shelbyville. Ind.. Dec. 4. Tht schools here are closed on account ot an epidemic of scarlet fever. We may look for “How to Live on a Factory Hand's Five Dollars a Week.” by Theodore. Jr., in the first issue of Roosevelt’s Magazine. We may also be thankful that the brilliant stars and planets now smiling on us are not looking for votes or Christmas presents. ■ ; Very natural for the Swiss to win out in that international balloon race. They are born and bred to go in high altitudes. The brisk demand for typewriters tn Turkey probably means more words than deeds out of the Young Turks. Chauncey Depew’s “three new campaign jokes’* turned out to be old ones with uew pure food labels.

GIRL WHO SHOT MAN IS FREED

Liberated After Hearing by Coroner’s Jury. PHOTO CAUSE OF TRAGEDY Estelle Stout Declares She Used Revolver Because She Saw Man Grappling with Her Sister After Quarrel Concerning Style of Frame on an Enlarged Picture—lnquest Brings Out Peculiarities of the Business of Reproducing Picture* of Departed Persons. Chicago, Dec. 4.—A coroner’s jury freed Estelle Stout who shot and killed Henry M. Hornberger, following a dispute over an enlarged and framed picture of a dead relative of the girl. It was brought out that all over the Country there are men whose business is to obtain photographs of dead persons, agreeing to enlarge them at a trifling cost. The pictures are returned in frames for which exorbitant amounts are demanded. The agents then declare that unless they get their money for picture and frame they will keep theoriginal photograph and the enlarged picture. Sometimes they state the original was destroyed accidentally, or lost. Often it happens the victim has no other portrait of the departed one, and rather than lose the picture pays for a frame worth a very small fraction of the stun demanded. In this case Mrs. Mary Chambers, a sister of Miss Stout, ordered a photo reproduced and a frame with a mourning border placed around it. Hornberger called to deliver the picture in a heavy gilt frame for which was asked a sum far in excess of what Mrs. Chambers expected to pay. Words followed. Miss Stout saw the man grappling with her sister and shot him. Hornberger’s widow in the inquest room spoke to the girl. “You are the one who murdered my husband. I will tear your eyes out! ’’ she said.

COOL BEFORE YOU FREEZE

Experts Hear This Is How to Properly Preserve Your Product. Washington, Dec. 4.—That most of the decay in fruit in connection with it* storage comes from improper packing was the consensusof opinion developed at the meeting of the American Warehouse Men’s association. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley stated It was better to cool products than to freeze them. z The fact was brought out that the prompt cooling of milk was an important, factor in its proper keeping, and *8 regarded butter it was agreed that careful manufacture before storage was most necessary.

BIG DYKE WASHED AWAY

Bfeck of Business Houses Abandoned in Pine Bluff, Ark. Pine Bluff, Ark., Dec. 4. —Unable to withstand the torrent hurled against it through the diverting of the current of the river, the result of dynamiting operations, the government dyke south of the former danger sone, was washed away for a distance of 200 yards. The steep bank, with the force of the swollen, river striking against it, is fast crumbling into the river. An entire block of business houses has been abandoned and smaller buildings are being roller away.

ATTACKS INHERITANCE TAX

Wisconsin May Hava to Refund 81,000,000 to Various Estates, „s Madison. Wls., Dec. 4.—-Mrs. Abbie E. Beals of Milwaukee, widow of Elias F. Beals, began suit in the supreme court of Wisconsin to test the constitutionality of the state inheritance tax law. 4 If the suit is successful, it will mean that the state will, if it follows rules of equity, have to return to different estates over $1,000,000 which it has collected under the law since the statute was enacted five years ago.

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE DEC.8

Congress Adjourns In Respect to Senator Allison’s Memory Monday. Washington. Dec. 4. The president’s annua! message will be read to the second session of the Sixtieth congress on,Tuesday next instead of the opening day of congress. The senate will adjourn on Monday out of respect to the memory of Sena tor Allison. Speaker Cannon says the house will also adjourn after new members are sworn in.

$5,000 FOR A BIBLE

Total of 850,000 Realized at Sale of Amherst Books. London, Dec. 4. —At the sale of the famous Amherst collection of books King Charles l.*s copy of the Cambridge Bible brought 35,000. A total of almost 350,000 was realised from the sale of 150 lots.

Tin Plate Widow Denies Engagement.

Richmond, Ind.. Dec. 4.—Mrs. William D. Leeds, widow of the Un plate and railroad magnate, in a tolegram to Richmond relatives denies she is engaged to James Cutting, New York etabman. I ■ ’ J

HAPPINESS IS DEPENDENT UPON HEALTH Health is dependent upon digestion. Digestion is dependent upon mastication. Mastication is dependent upon teeth. Good teeth are a continuous pleasure to those who possess them. An occasional thought about your teeth, is a profitable habit, ow long is it since a dentist has told you the condition of your teeth, Operations that my patients receive, create a satisfaction they want to tell the neighbors about. Prices meet the ordinary purse. You need to know the news I will tell you about your teeth. DR. HORTON I I All Sessions Open. Everybody Invited. JASPER COUNTY H FARMERS’ INSTITUTE ANO 1 LADIES’ AUXILIARY COMBINED December 7-8, 1908. < ► I I In the Court House, Rensselaer, Ind. Eighteenth Session. II State Instructors—A. G. Burkhart, Tipton, Indiana; II Miss Ethel E. Berry, Jewel City, Kansas; Sam B. Woods, Crown Point, Indiana. Program I I Monday, December 7th. II 10:00 A. M. Invocation.,Rev. Kindig. II 10:10 A. M. Miscellany ’► 10:20 A. M. President’s Address I I 10:30 A. M. The Golden Hoof. .A? G. Burkhart. JI 11:00 A. M. Cow Barns and How to Build Them. .Sam B. Woods. J; 11:30 A. M. Cement on the F?rmAmos H. Alter. <► 12:00 M. Noon Intermission. II 1:00 P.M. Patriotic Chorus. II 1:05 P.M. Miscellany. <> 1:15 P. M. Co-operation Among Farmers Sam B. Woods. II 1:45 P. M. Sheep Raising in Jasper County,R. J. Yeoman. JI 2:05 P. M. The Duties and Privlliges of a Farmer’s wife < • .A. G. Burkhart. 11 Discussion opened by Mr*. George Ketchum. JI 2:35 P. M. Should Farmers Patronize Mall Order Firms? < » Answered Pro and Con by W. L. Wood and <> Stephen Bresnahan. II 2:55 P. M. Dairy Breedsß. D. Comer. II 3:25 P. M. Feeding a Dairy Herd Sam B. Woods, o 3:55 P. M. Summary. II EVENING SESSION. II 7:00 P. M. Seventh Grade Chorus. <► 7:20 P. M. Select Reading John E. Alter. II 7:30 P. M. The Farmer and His CallingA. G. Burkhart. I I TUESDAY, DECEMBER Sth. 10:00 A. M. Invocationßev. Bundy. II 10:10 A. M. Miscellany. II 10:20 A. M. The Ideal Farm. .A. G. Burkhart. J' 10:50 A. M. Corn Culture Marion Adams < ► 11:20 A. M. Domestic Science in Public Schools. Miss E. E. Berry 11 12.00 M. Noon Intermission. II 1:00 P. M. Song, Hunting Chorus. < » 1:05 P. M. Yeast and Bread Miss Ethel E. Berry. II 1:35 P. M. A Plea for Mote Clover, and How to Get It II A. G. Burkhart. < > 2:05 P. M. Varieties, Color, and Characteristics of Corn 11 Joe Pullin*. < II 2:25 P. M. Rotation of Crops. Theodore Dunlap. I I [ 2:55 P. M. Education and Preparation Necessary in Every o Calling..A. G. Burkhart. 1 II 3:25 P.M. Report of Committees. J * Sanimary. ; I JOHN E. ALTER, President X EVERETT HALSTEAD, Secretary X Ladies’ Auxiliary: X MRS. I. F. MEADER, President ♦ MRS. BURTON, Secretary

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